Platform.role.GetTalentGroupRoleObservation

Call as

addon.Platform:GetTalentGroupRoleObservation(group)

Available directly through addon; no dependency is needed.

What it does

Observe the first role result of the exact legacy GetTalentGroupRole(group) dot call on probe- and restricted-policy clients. Forward the readable selected group unchanged, including nil as one argument; do not infer group bounds, substitute another API or query a player unit. The complete legacy primary declaration is not established. Missing, failed, restricted, empty or malformed role data is unavailable; readable nonempty future strings remain exact.

Arguments

Name	Type	What it does
`self`	`RMPlatform`	Rotation Master platform adapter (implicit with colon calls).
`group`	`any`	Live selected talent-group argument, forwarded unchanged as one argument after readability checking.

Returns

1	`string \| nil`	Known nonempty role string, or nil when unavailable.
2	`string \| nil`	Policy, capability or required-observation availability reason.

Editions

Built In helpers are registered on every edition. What differs is the game API they read; where one is missing the helper falls back or returns nil with a reason.

Not available on that edition (the reason is in the tooltip)
Only while Blizzard's deprecation fallbacks are on

Game API
`GetTalentGroupRole`

Secret values (Retail and Forever)

On Retail and Forever the game hands addons secret values. This helper checks what it reads (addon.Platform:CanReadValue) and returns nil with a reason such as restricted-value instead of a secret it cannot compare. Treat nil as unavailable, not as false.

Example

local group = GetActiveTalentGroup and GetActiveTalentGroup()
local role = addon.Platform:GetTalentGroupRoleObservation(group)
if role == nil then return nil end
return role == "TANK"

Dependencies

readField → Platform.role.readField
roleValue → Platform.role.roleValue

Source

Platform/role.lua, line 96. Read only in game; Duplicate makes an editable copy.

Platform.role.GetTalentGroupRoleObservation(self, group)

    local policy=self:GetCombatDataPolicy()
    if policy~='probe' and policy~='restricted' then return nil,'unsupported-policy' end
    if not self:CanReadValue(group) then return nil,'restricted-value' end
    local query,reason=readField(self,_G,'GetTalentGroupRole')
    if reason then return nil,reason end
    if type(query)~='function' then return nil,'missing-api' end
    local ok,role=pcall(query,group)
    if not ok then return nil,'api-error' end
    return roleValue(self,role)

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